New House Blues

I haven't posted because I have been so busy packing and moving and unpacking. I know that's no excuse to log in and spend a few minutes writing down my thoughts. The house is coming along well. Let me describe our new house a bit. It's a new construction ranch dwelling with no grass (a little grass, but mostly dirt). When you first enter the house you can see all the way into the living room, so you see my large widesrceen tv. Off to your left is a small room that is a laundry room and to the right is the music room. Most people would have made the music room into a dining room, but my wife and I don't use the dining room table, so we put the round solid oak table down into the basement for poker games. The music room is open and spacious with our instruments lying around the room in their cases. It's acoustics are pretty nice. Off of the living room is a hall that leads down to the library and the master bedroom and a guest bedroom. (three bedrooms, but we really like having a library with all of our great books on the shelves) We've unpacked over half of our stuff. The only room that is not yet completed is the guest room, which is full of boxes that need to go to the basement for storage. The garage also has a bunch of boxes that need to be unloaded to the basement, but first we need to setup our storage area in the basement. We bought 24 bricks and 4 MDF boards to make some areas that will be raised off the basement floor to keep moisture at bay, and a couple real storage shelf units. Once they are in place, the boxes will be sorted out and reorganized and put into storage. Then, we can put the guest room furniture into place and we'll be done! It seems to be the hardest part of unpacking. You have everything you think you need in it's place, and now you have to store the stuff you don't want to throw away but don't really want to put into the new house. The hard part is giving up a relaxing day or two to actually do the work. That is why I haven't blogged. I've really been trying to stay focused on the house. Today, I felt obligated to post something out of duty to my friends. I know you miss me! Sorry! *hugs* There is a sense of loss as we near completion of our house. I can't quite explain it. All of the excitement is coming to an end and your fatigue levels are still reading along the redline, so it's worse than being drained, but I can't put it into better words. It's not a saddness. It's not a relief. It's the new house blues. I need to go into the music room and put together a song now. It won't be very good, but when you have the blues, you have to take advantage of it and write a song. If I get a good blues song written, I'll post it here, otherwise, I might have to post a I didn't write a blues song blues song.